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Sausal Creek is a 3.0-mile-long (4.8 km) northwesterly-flowing stream originating in Portola Valley along the northeastern edge of the Windy Hill Open Space Preserve in the eastern foothills of the Santa Cruz Mountains, in San Mateo County, California, United States.
The Coal Mine Ridge of Portola Valley Ranch has many walking (closed to biking) trails. [ 13 ] The headwaters of Los Trancos Creek are easily accessed from Page Mill Road in the Los Trancos Open Space Preserve of the Midpeninsula Regional Open Space District and include the Lost Creek Trail, the San Andreas Fault Trail, the Page Mill Trail and ...
Beckwourth (formerly, Beckwith [3] and Beekwith [4]) is a census-designated place (CDP) in Plumas County, California, United States. [5] Beckwourth is located on the Middle Fork Feather River 5 miles (8.0 km) east of Portola. [2] [3] The population was 432 at the 2010 census, up from 342 at the 2000 census.
Statue of Gaspar de Portolá in Pacifica, California, near the expedition's November 1 camp. This timeline of the Portolá expedition tracks the progress during 1769 and 1770 of the first European exploration-by-land of north-western coastal areas in what became Las Californias, a province of Spanish colonial New Spain.
Casa de Tableta, now known as the Alpine Inn, and formerly known as Rossotti's Saloon and Zott's, [2] was built c.1851 in Portola Valley, California at the junction of Arastradero Road. [3] It was listed as a California Historical Landmark in 1969 and on the National Register of Historic Places in 1973.
The Portola Valley School is a one-room schoolhouse that sits at 775 Portola Road in Portola Valley, California. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1974. [ 1 ] [ 3 ] It is currently used for Portola Valley town-hall meetings.
Lake Davis is an artificial lake in Plumas County, California near the Sierra Nevada community of Portola. Its waters are impounded by Grizzly Valley Dam, which was completed in 1966 (58 years ago) () as part of the California State Water Project. The lake is named for Lester T. Davis (1906–1952). [1]
Searsville Dam is a masonry dam in San Mateo County, California, that was completed in 1892, one year after the founding of Stanford University, and impounds Corte Madera Creek (in the San Francisquito Creek watershed) to form a reservoir known as Searsville Reservoir or Searsville Lake.